Department of Anthropology

Research output

Research output per year 1970 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2023

• 392 Article
• 187 Chapter
• 117 Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review
• 32 Book
• 168 More
  • 24 Edited Book/Anthology
  • 24 Letter
  • 22 Review article
  • 16 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary/reference book
  • 12 Commissioned report
  • 12 Website contribution
  • 9 Comment/opinion
  • 8 Conference proceeding contribution
  • 8 Foreword/postscript/introduction
  • 8 Editorial
  • 5 Abstract
  • 4 Conference paper
  • 4 Other journal contribution
  • 4 Digital or Visual products
  • 2 Conference abstract
  • 1 Other report
  • 1 Other chapter contribution
  • 1 Paper
  • 1 Book/Film/Article review
  • 1 Other contribution
  • 1 Doctoral Thesis

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2018

  Unfinished: the anthropology of becoming

  Costa, R., Dec 2018, In: The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 29, 3, p. 391-392 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review

  • anthropology 100%

• Vigilance and sentinels in global health security

  Lyttleton, C., 19 May 2018, In: Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. 37, 4, p. 327-342 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Global Health 100%
  • preempt 85%
  • Emerging Communicable Diseases 71%
  • contagious disease 49%
  • Malaria 46%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Wear your heart on your sleeve

  Noel, A. P., 20 Jul 2018, Anthropology News.

  Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article

  • Wearable Electronic Devices 100%
  • Mental Health 54%
  • Heart 44%
  • Health 33%
  • Equipment and Supplies 27%

• When ethics review boards get ethnographic research wrong

  Wynn, L. L., 2018, The SAGE handbook of qualitative research ethics. Iphofen, R. & Tolich, M. (eds.). London: SAGE Publications, p. 248-262 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Worn out: how mental health wearables devices are changing the landscape of mental health

  Pavithra Joseph, A., 29 Aug 2018. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

  • emotion 100%
  • regulation policy 94%
  • mental health 94%
  • reductionism 88%
  • multinational corporation 84%

• Ислам Антропологии = Islam Antropologii

  Translated title of the contribution: Islam of anthropologyHouston, C., 2018, In: Islamology journal . 8, 1, p. 9-25 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Islam 100%
  • islamophobia 90%
  • anthropology 87%
  • radicalization 40%
  • present 36%
• 2017

  Abortion pills, test tube babies, and sex toys: emerging sexual and reproductive technologies in the Middle East and North Africa

  Wynn, L. L. (ed.) & Foster, A. M. (ed.), 2017, Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. 252 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book/Anthology › peer-review

  • Reproductive Techniques 100%
  • Northern Africa 96%
  • Eastern Africa 93%
  • Play and Playthings 92%
  • Middle East 86%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• A categorical failure: 'mixed-race' in colonial Papua New Guinea

  Goddard, M., 2017, Mixed race identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. McGavin, K. & Fozdar, F. (eds.). New York ; London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 133-146 14 p. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology; no. 33).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• 'Against Native Title': conflict and creativity in outback Australia

  Vincent, E., 1 Aug 2017, Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press. 243 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • Outback 100%
  • Creativity 55%
  • Recovery 28%
  • Storyteller 18%
  • Wheel 17%

• Back to the future: engaging with the Australian Aboriginal past, present and future through tourism

  Pavithra Joseph, A., 1 Nov 2017, Deakin University: 50 years of naming institutional racism : Realising racial equity or intensifying injustices?. Deakin University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference abstract

  Open Access

  • Tourism 100%
  • economic model 68%
  • invasion 65%
  • present 64%
  • assimilation 58%

• Becoming, there? In pursuit of mobile methods

  Vasantkumar, C., 2017, Methodologies of mobility: ethnography and experiment. Elliot, A., Norum, R. & Salazar, N. B. (eds.). New York ; Oxford: Berghahn Books, p. 68-87 20 p. (Worlds in Motion; vol. 2).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Charismatic monks of Lanna and Isan: A Comparison

  Cohen, P., 2017, Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddism. Cohen, P. T. (ed.). Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), p. 59-86 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism

  Cohen, P. T. (ed.), 2017, Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS). 266 p. (Studies in Asian Topics; no. 57)

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book/Anthology › peer-review

  • Monks 100%
  • Buddhisms 97%
  • Thailand 87%
  • Highlands 54%
  • Buddhist Study 39%

• Co-creating support curriculum with PACE international community partners

  Bilous, R., Coffey, E., Downey, G., Hammersley, L., Lloyd, K. & Rawlings-Sanaei, F., 2017, Learning through community engagement: vision and practice in higher education. Sachs, J. & Clark, L. (eds.). Singapore: Springer, Springer Nature, p. 289-292 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Creating a Nation with Cloth: Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora

  Hermkens, A-K., 10 Dec 2017, In: Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. 41, 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review

  Open Access

  • Cloth 100%
  • book review 90%
  • diaspora 75%
  • Diasporas 69%
  • Wealth 55%

• 'Damaged goods' and motherhood

  Ryder, T., 2017.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

  • motherhood 100%
  • chronic illness 38%
  • illness 31%
  • women's role 23%
  • gender 19%

• Entre sueños y realidades: la cultura onírica entre los tzotziles de San Juan Chamula en Los Altos de Chiapas

  Translated title of the contribution: Between dreams and realities: oneiric culture among the Tzotzil Maya of San Juan Chamula in the Highlands of ChiapasGroark, K. P., 15 Dec 2017, In: EntreDiversidades: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. 9, p. 43-86 43 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Chiapas 100%
  • Maya 64%
  • Highlands 62%
  • Tack 6%
  • Dreamer 6%
  735 Downloads (Pure)

• Fear and wonder out bush: engaging a critical anthropological perspective on indigenous alterity

  Vincent, E., 2017, In: Journal of Religious and Political Practice. 3, 3, p. 152-167 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • foreignness 100%
  • anxiety 57%
  • national development 33%
  • political development 32%
  • cultural difference 27%

• Fluctuating illness and the value of recognition

  Ryder, T., 15 Dec 2017, p. 102. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  • illness 100%
  • disability 34%
  • chronic illness 24%
  • experience 23%
  • vulnerability 20%

• From world cities to world sites: Strategic ruralism and the case for an anthropology of actually existing connectivity

  Vasantkumar, C., 1 Dec 2017, In: Critique of Anthropology. 37, 4, p. 364-382 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Anthropology 100%
  • Connectivity 88%
  • anthropology 67%
  • Paradigmatics 48%
  • Anthropologists 47%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Gaining access to the radically unfamiliar: religion in modern times

  Ram, K., 2017, Dynamics of religion: past and present: proceedings of the XXI world congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Erfurt, August 23-29, 2015. Bochinger, C. & Rüpke, J. (eds.). Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter, p. 191-210 20 p. (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten; vol. 67).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Modern Times 100%
  • Religion 93%
  • Anthropology 43%
  • Religious Phenomena 41%
  • Subaltern 37%
  47 Downloads (Pure)

• Historicizing Motu ceramics and the Hiri trade

  David, B., Richards, T., Goddard, M., Dutton, T., Leavesley, M., McNiven, I. J. & Mandui, H., 2017, Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: cultural, linguistic and environmental setting. Richards, T., David, B., Aplin, K. & McNiven, I. J. (eds.). Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, Vol. 1. p. 65-74 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Humor, amnesia, and making place: constitutive acts of the subject in Gezi Park, Istanbul

  Houston, C. & Senay, B., 1 Sept 2017, In: Social Analysis. 61, 3, p. 19-40 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Amnesia 100%
  • Istanbul 91%
  • humor 85%
  • Political Subjectivity 29%
  • mood 20%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Hymenoplasty, virginity testing, and the simulacrum of female respectability

  Wynn, L. L. & Hassanein, S., 2017, In: Signs. 42, 4, p. 893-917 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Virginity 100%
  • Simulacra 95%
  • Respectability 90%
  • graffiti 67%
  • Graffiti 61%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• India's part in the politics of Fiji's decolonization: from 'outworn slogans' to 'pragmatism and realism'

  Norton, R., 3 Apr 2017, In: Journal of Pacific History. 52, 2, p. 172-193 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Decolonization 100%
  • Realism 75%
  • decolonization 72%
  • Melanesia 72%
  • pragmatism 69%

• Introduction: revaluing women's wealth and work in the contemporary Pacific

  Hermkens, A-K. & Lepani, K., 2017, Sinuous Objects: Women's Wealth in the Contemporary Pacific. Hermkens, A-K. & Lepani, K. (eds.). Canberra: ANU Press, p. 1-36 36 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Introduction: Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism

  Cohen, P. T., 2017, Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism. Cohen, P. T. (ed.). Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Vol. 57. p. 1-25 25 p. (NIAS Studies in Asian Topics; vol. 57).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript/introduction › peer-review

• Introduction: Setting the context : sexuality, reproductive health, and medical technologies in the Middle East and North Africa

  Foster, A. M. & Wynn, L. L., 2017, Abortion pills, test tube babies, and sex toys: emerging sexual and reproductive technologies in the Middle East and North Africa. Wynn, L. L. & Foster, A. M. (eds.). Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, p. 1-12 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript/introduction › peer-review

• Introduction

  Timmer, J. & Tomlinson, M., 12 Aug 2017, In: Journal of Religious and Political Practice. 3, 3, p. 97-103 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  • social issue 100%

• John of God : The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing

  Wynn, L. L., 2017, In: The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 28, 3, p. 383-384 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review

  • book review 100%
  • god 88%
  • faith 77%
  • globalization 59%

• Koita and Motu landscapes and seascapes of Caution Bay

  digim'Rina, L., Richards, T., David, B., Leavesley, M., Goddard, M., Dutton, T., Skelly, R., Naidi, L. & Hagoria, J., 2017, Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: cultural, linguistic and environmental setting. Richards, T., David, B., Aplin, K. & McNiven, I. J. (eds.). Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, Vol. 1. p. 53-63 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• "Maisin is tapa!": exploring the meaning and use of tapa among the Maisin people in Papua New Guinea

  Hermkens, A-K. & Barker, J., 2017, Tapa: from tree bark to cloth: an ancient art of Oceania: from Southeast Asia to Eastern Polynesia. Charleux, M. (ed.). Paris: Somogy, p. 99-104 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Mapping the illness trajectories of insomnia: a biographical disruption?

  Cheung, J. M. Y., Saini, B., Bartlett, D. J., Laba, T-L. & Mason, P. H., Jun 2017, In: Sociology of Health and Illness. 39, 5, p. 659-679 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • sleep 100%
  • Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders 97%
  • illness 74%
  • Sleep 36%
  • Social Environment 28%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Marking out the space between illness and health

  Ryder, T., 17 Jul 2017, (Unpublished).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

• Maro from Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay

  Hermkens, A-K., 2017, Tapa: from tree bark to cloth: an ancient art of Oceania: from Southeast Asia to Eastern Polynesia. Charleux, M. (ed.). Paris: Somogy, p. 78-83 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Mining, indigeneity, alterity: or, mining Indigenous alterity?

  Neale, T. & Vincent, E., 2017, In: Cultural Studies. 31, 2-3, p. 417-439 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Indigeneity 100%
  • foreignness 81%
  • Alterity 77%
  • cultural difference 67%
  • Cultural Differences 57%
  30 Citations (Scopus)

• Odd neighbours: trans-Himalayan Tibetan itineraries and Chinese economic development

  Vasantkumar, C., 2017, The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China's Borders. Saxer, M. & Zhang, J. (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 167-186 20 p. (Asian borderlands).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  459 Downloads (Pure)

• Opium and shifting cultivation in Laos: state discourses and policies

  Cohen, P. T., 2017, Shifting cultivation policies: balancing environmental and social sustainability. Cairns, M. (ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing, p. 577-592 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Outlaw one: defending identity in the native title era

  Vincent, E., 2017, In: Griffith Review. 55, p. 278-288 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Reciprocity-building and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in tuberculosis research

  Mason, P. H., Roy, A. & Singh, P., Jul 2017, In: Journal of Biosocial Science. 49, 4, p. 559-562 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Remembering the Future. Warlpiri Life through the Prism of Drawing

  Vincent, E., Apr 2017, In: The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 28, 1, p. 131-132 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review

  • book review 100%
  • bibliography 83%

• Rethinking spirituality through music education in Istanbul

  Senay, B., 8 Dec 2017, In: European Journal of Turkish Studies. 25, p. 1-20 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Spirituality 100%
  • Music Education 94%
  • Istanbul 88%
  • Turkish music 43%
  • Spiritualization 41%
  109 Downloads (Pure)

• Revolutionary ethics: relations between Leftist militants and gecekondu dwellers in Istanbul, 1975-1980

  Houston, C., 2017, The politics of culture in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus: performing the Left since the sixties. Karakatsanis, L. & Papadogiannis, N. (eds.). London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 231-248 18 p. (Routledge Advances in Mediterranean Studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Rubber's affective economies: seeding a social landscape in Northwest Laos

  Lyttleton, C. & Li, Y., 2017, Changing lives in Laos: society, politics and culture in a post-Socialist state. Bouté, V. & Pholsena, V. (eds.). Singapore: NUS Press, p. 301-324 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Searching for fish names with the Vula'a of Papua New Guinea

  Van Heekeren, D., 2017, In: History and Anthropology. 28, 5, p. 605-629 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Fishing Techniques 100%
  • Austronesian Languages 80%
  • Collaborative Projects 79%
  • Papua New Guinea 77%
  • Local Language 77%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Sinuous objects: revaluing women's wealth in the contemporary Pacific

  Hermkens, A-K. (ed.) & Lepani, K. (ed.), 2017, Canberra: ANU Press. 292 p. (Pacific Series)

  Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book/Anthology › peer-review

  Open Access

  • religious behavior 100%
  • transaction 99%
  • anthropology 92%
  • gender 52%

• Specters of social antagonism: the cultural psychodynamics of dream aggression among the Tzotzil Maya of San Juan Chamula (Chiapas, Mexico)

  Groark, K. P., 7 Sept 2017, In: Ethos. 45, 3, p. 314-341 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Chiapas 100%
  • phantasy 89%
  • Phantasy 74%
  • Spectre 70%
  • antagonism 69%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Spirit children: illness, poverty, and infanticide in Northern Ghana

  Denham, A. R., 2017, Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. 220 p. (Africa and the diaspora: a history, politics, culture)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

  • Ghana 100%
  • illness 82%
  • poverty 71%
  • Death Decisions 42%
  • West Africa 29%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Stimulating circuits: Chinese desires and transnational affective economies in Southeast Asia

  Lyttleton, C., 2017, Chinese encounters in Southeast Asia: how people, money and ideas from China are changing a region. Nyiri, P. & D. T. (eds.). Seattle ; London: University of Washington Press, p. 214-233 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Textual ecologies in Islam: improvising the perfect Qur'an in calligraphy

  Senay, B., 2017, In: Journal of Religious and Political Practice. 3, 1-2, p. 46-56 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Improvising 100%
  • Calligraphy 94%
  • Islam 85%
  • Quran 70%
  • Ecology 63%